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Says a TSF reader: Gone are a sales assistant and a reporter the Sherwood Park News.; a front office employee in Morinville will be working part-time for the next few weeks at Fort Saskatchewan and the lone editorial staffer is being transferred to Fort Saskatchewan to replace one who is leaving for a (and I quote the reporter) "a more secure gig."

Another reader writes: "The publisher in Beaumont and Devon is gone, George Brown. Publisher for Lacombe (Ron Buck), he is gone. He hasn't been there long. Publisher for Canmore/Banff is gone, Brian Bentt. (22 years). They are getting Craig Martin's nephew to oversee Airdrie, Cochrane, Banff and Canmore. In Morinville, four inserters, two sales staffers were let go. There were layoffs in Camrose, Westaskiwin and Leduc."

Jobs here, jobs there. Just how many jobs have been trimmed since Quebecor bought Sun Media in 1999 and Osprey Media in 2007?

Are there any loose-lipped master Quebecor Media payroll employees out there?

As a reporter that is still around...one Alberta paper was missed...One sales assistant and one reporter were also let go at the Sherwood Park News. As for Morinville, one front office staffer will be working part-time for the next few weeks at Fort Saskatchewan, while Morinville's lone editorial staffer is being transfered to Fort Saskatchewan to replace one who is leaving for a (and I quote the reporter) "a more secure gig."

The publisher in Beaumont and Devon is gone, George Brown. Publisher for Lacombe don't know his name, he is gone. He hasn't been there long.Publisher for Canmore/Banff is gone, Brian Bentt. (22 years). They are getting Craig Martins nephew to over see Airdrie, Cochrane, Banff and Canmore.

George Brown is the current board's president of the provincial association, and on the CCNA board as well. In the business for over 20 years. Just won another international editorial award last year. What sort of product do you end up with when you throw away the people who actually care about the product?

Both Morinville and Redwater papers were totally closed last week as was the Jasper paper. Eight employees gone in Morinville.

The carnage is sickening and the business plan is nothing short of pure ignorance of the community newspaper business at every level from the top down.

Has no one in western management the guts to stand up for what is right? They bow to PKP, oblivious to the effects they are having on communities that supported them through good times and bad for decades.

RE: Intelligencer cutsThe layoff are indeed true -- buyouts have been offered but no details, those are coming this week, if at all.Eventually, all layout will be done in Barrie, ads done in WoodstockPublisher John Knowles noted a third layout centre would be opening in Southwestern Ont. Your local newspaper has become a wraparound for centralized data And government is mistrusted?

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